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Lenore and Bernard Greenberg: A Gathering of Works

Willem de Kooning

Head No. 4

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lenore and Bernard Greenberg: A Gathering of Works

Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997


Head No. 4

incised with the artist's signature and number 4/7 (lower right)

bronze

10 ½ by 9 ½ by 11 ½ in.

26.7 by 24.1 by 29.2 cm.

Executed in 1973, this work is number 4 from an edition of 7 plus 4 artist's proofs.

Estate of the artist

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in April 1998 by the present owner

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, de Kooning: drawings/sculptures, March 1974 - April 1975, no. 149 (another example exhibited)

Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Willem de Kooning, September - October 1975, no. 44, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Fourcade, Droll, Inc., De Kooning: New Works: Paintings and Sculpture, October - December 1975, no. 23, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, De Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 1967-1975, December 1975 - February 1976, no. 28, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Seattle Art Museum Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, February - March 1976

James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, Willem de Kooning: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, May - June 1976

University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, de Kooning: Lithographs, Paintings and Sculptures, October - November 1976

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg; Geneva, Cabinet des Estampes, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and Grenoble, Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Willem de Kooning: Beelden en Lithos, no. B23, March 1976 - September 1977 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery and London, Serpentine Gallery, The Sculptures of de Kooning with Related Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs, October 1977 - January 1978, n.p. (text) (another example exhibited)

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, February - April 1978, no. 94, p. 125, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Cedar Falls, The Gallery of Art at the University of Northern Iowa; St. Louis Art Museum and Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center, De Kooning 1969 - 78, October 1978 - April 1979, no. 36, p. 46, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen, September - October 1983, no. 21, p. 75 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, May - October 1983, no. 71, p. 111, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Berlin, Akademie der Künste and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Willem de Kooning. Drawings · Paintings · Sculpture, December 1983 - September 1984, no. 277, p. 261, illustrated (another example exhibited)

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture 1971-83, November 1984 - January 1985, no. 19, n.p., illustrated in color and n.p (text) (another example exhibited)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Barcelona, Fundació "la Caixa"; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection, October 1993 - May 1995, no. 48, p. 145, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Gerrit Henry, "De Kooning - Reconfirming the Apocalypse," Art News, Vol. 76, No. 9, November 1975, p. 60, illustrated

Harry F. Gaugh, Willem de Kooning, New York 1983, no. 91, p. 101, illustrated (another example)

Joop M Joosten, ed., 20 Years of Collecting: Acquisitions Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1963-1984, Amsterdam, 1984, no. 442, p. 231

Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Willem de Kooning: Sculpture, May - June 1996, no. 22, p. 57, illustrated

Judith Zilczer, A Way of Living: the Art of Willem de Kooning, London 2014, no. 223, p. 197, illustrated in color